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Dear beanbean,This "lovely black screen" is a BIOS password screen. This shows up because somebody has set a boot-up password in the BIOS Setup. If you're lucky, the BIOS Setup is still unprotected, and you can access it as follows:When you turn it on, look for something that says "Press [button] to enter Setup" or "Press [button] to enter Setup Utilities." Press the corresponding button on your keyboard, and you should enter BIOS Setup.

Now two things can happen. Either you are permitted to access Setup, or you are prompted for the password.If you can access Setup, navigate to the Security tab and clear all set passwords.If not... then you can either reset BIOS by unplugging the computer, taking off the back, and removing the CMOS Battery (unrecommended), or you can call Toshiba support and ask for the master password (Most manufacturers have a master password, which will allow you to access Setup and remove the boot-up password)Hope this helps,Ericthecmh

The BIOS ROM chip on the motherboard is probably faulty. It could also be another component on the motherboard.

You should make sure that all of the BIOS settings in the system are correct, by rebooting the system, going into BIOS setup and double-checking all the values (hopefully against a recent

If you have reset the CMOS memory you need to go into the BIOS setup screen and reconfigure the BIOS. To do that you need to press a key while the computer is booting. Usually F2 but can be other keys. It should tell you on the bottom of the first screen which key to press to enter BIOS setup. If you don't know the settings the should be one for optimal defaults - use that one. You will also need to reset the time and date. Save, Exit and re-boot and everything should then work. During the boot process you will see on the screen to press delete to enter setup

After "Fast Boot" has been enabled, you cannot access the BIOS setup
during power on . The machine will bypass "Press F2 to access Setup
Utiltiy and F12 for Boot Menu" prompt.This is a bigger issue if the hard drive crashes and access to Windows is not possible OR

Fast Boot can be enabled or disabled in the BIOS setup, or in HW Setup under Windows.If
you have Fast Boot enabled and you want to get into the BIOS setup.
Hold down the F2 key, then power on. That will get you into the BIOS
setup Utility.You can disable the Fast Boot Option here. You will need to disable Fast Boot if you want to use the F12 / Boot menu.

If you have reset the CMOS memory you need to go into the BIOS setup screen and reconfigure the BIOS. To do that you need to press a key while the computer is booting. Usually F2 but can be other keys. It should tell you on the bottom of the first screen which key to press to enter BIOS setup. If you don't know the settings the should be one for optimal defaults - use that one. You will also need to reset the time and date. Save, Exit and re-boot and everything should then work. During the boot process you will see on the screen to press delete to enter setup

Actually its not a bios code. Its a password that was been setup during the accessing of its bios. There are two options in setting up such a thing. 1 is for the security of cannot accessing the bios and 2 for not accessing the computer when booting up. Well in your case it was setup in not accessing the computer when booting up. If you set this options definitely you know the password of it. Just type it in the password that you have setup. Then press enter.

To access your BIOS Setup please restart your laptop then during the first boot process kindly press either the following:

1. F12. F23. F84. F125. F106. Del7. Esc

Cause the bios setup is design in different manufacturer of laptop so the best thing to do is read the information during the first boot of your laptop it is always display the keyboard sequence to access the bios setup.

Hello OldnoviiThis Toshiba notebook has both a BIOS and hard drive lock on it. The client has already paid $ 25 to the Toshiba depot to have the BIOS lock removed now they want $ 100 to remove the hard drive lock. The hard drive lock cannot be removed by trying to bypass it using a boot cd or disabling the hard drive boot option in the BIOS. Any help will be appreciated since my client has now had the notebook for 2 weeks and cannot use it. Thanks